“RE: How to Install DBD::mysql on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)”

On 7/16/04, The Cunctator said:

>Perhaps I did something bad on the install of mysql, but if the
>perl installer is having trouble finding mysql_config, you need to
>edit the line in Makefile.PL
>
> open(PIPE, "mysql_config --$param |");
>
>to say
>
> open(PIPE, "/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --$param |");
>
>If you don't do this make may have trouble finding mysql.h....

OMM, the path to mysql is in the PATH (the PATH environment variable), so it has no problem finding it.

This is handled by the startup script at /Library/StartupItems/MySQL/MySQL, which actually runs /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server when the machine starts up. The section that sets this up is right near the top of that script, and looks like this:

if test -z "$basedir"
then
  basedir=/usr/local/mysql
  bindir=./bin
else
  bindir="$basedir/bin"
fi
 
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:$basedir/bin
export PATH

This is the standard setup. I don't know if you did something "bad," but it's certainly possible that you did something different, like told it not to run mysql at boot time, or wrote your own startup script. (If the latter, then you should probably modify it to put /usr/local/mysql into PATH.)

I hope that helped, at least a little!

Seth